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F. L. BRYANT.

HOSPITAL BEDSTBAD.

No. 434,174. Patented Aug. 12,1890;

1s Ptfins cm, Nam-mum, memuafon n c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED L. BRYANT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMESAND FROST COMPANY, OF ILLINOIS.

HOSPlTAL-BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,174, dated August 12,1890. Application filed April 1d, 1890. Serial No. 348,570. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED L. BRYANT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hospital-Bedsteads; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates particularly. to that form of hospital-bedsteads in which there is a rigid horizontal bed-frame supported at each end by an iron rising from the floor through an iron sleeve at one corner of the bed-frame, then extending horizontally across the end of the bed downward through another sleeve at the adjacent corner of the bedframe to the fioor, said single piece of iron forming both legsand a substitute for the head or foot board of the bed. Set-bolts are usually used to bind said sleeves to the legs of the bedstead. In the manufacture of these bedsteads it has been found difficult to bend said iron so that the legs are always equally far from each other. It has also been found difficult to always make the space between said sleeves exactly the same. It has followed, therefore, that in turning out a large quantity of bedsteads it has often proved difficult to put them together after shipment to customers. It has been the custom to ship the bows formed out of the said bent iron out of the sleeves at the ends of the bedstead. Oftenwhen dealers and customers have undertaken to set up these bedsteads they have been obliged to force the bows into the sleeves with so much force as to cause the breaking of the latter or the irons. of which they form a part. -My improvement makes it unnecessary that the sleeves be acertain distance apart, or that the legs of the bows be a certain distance apart. My improvement provides for compensation when there is variation in said distances.

In theaccompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective of one end of a bedstead embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a detail view of one of the corner-irons.

A is the frame'of the bed-bottom. A A are the side rails, and A isthe end rail of said frame. B B are the corner-irons applied to the corners of said frame. a

C is the bow embodying the legs 0'.

The corner-iron B consists of two parts, one designated by B and bolted to the frame A, and the other a sleeve designated by B and surrounding the adjacent legs 0'. Set-bolts I) extend through the sleeve B and bind against the legs C, so that said sleeve is clamped to said leg. The sleeve B is hinged to the part B by a vertical hinge. This hinge may be formed in any suitable way. The drawings show ears I) on the part 13 overlapping corresponding ears 1), extending from I the sleeve B and a bolt B extending through said ears. In putting the bed together the sleeves B at the same end of the bed may swing upon said hinge and separate or approach each other to receive the legs C or the bow C. The manufacturer may set up the bedstead complete, and then uneonple the bows C from the frame A at the hinge. Then the user of the bed has only to reunite these parts at the hinge without adjustment. The part B is in effect a part of. the frame A, and the sleeve B is hinged to said frame.

I claim as my invention 1. In a bedstead, the combination of the frame A, bows C, and sleeves B surrounding the legs of said bows and secured there to and hinged to said frame, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a bedstead, the combination of the frame A, bows C, and sleeves B surrounding the legs of said bows and hinged to said frame, and set-bolts for securing said sleeves to said legs,substantially as shown and described.

3. In a bedstead, the combination of the frame A, parts B,-joined to the corners of said frame, bows C, sleeves B surrounding the legs of said bows and hinged to said parts B, and set-bolts extending through said sleeves to secure the latter to said legs, substantially as shown and described.

4. The Combination of the frame A, parts In testimony whereof Iaflix mysignature, in B, having ears I), bows 0, having legs 0', presence of two Witnesses, this 10th day of sleeves B surrounding said legs and having April, 1890. ears 1), bolts B extending through the ears 5 b and I), and set-bolts extending through \Vitnesses:

said sleeves to secure the latter to said legs, LYNDEN EVANS, substantially as shown and described. CYRUS KEHR.

FRED L. BRYANT. 

